Ansible Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Ansible for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Puppet, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ansible and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Ansible are Salt, Chef, Terraform and Rudder.

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Ansible alternatives page was last updated Mar 4, 2025
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  1. Puppet icon

    Puppet

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    Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

    46 Puppet alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Puppet VS Ansible

     

    • Almost everyone thinks Puppet is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Puppet is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Ansible.

    • Puppet is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ansible.

    • Puppet is Freemium and Open SourceAnsible is also Freemium and Open Source
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    Salt

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    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Salt screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Salt VS Ansible

     
    Comments about Salt as an Alternative to Ansible
    psi4ick
    Positive Mar 12, 2019
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    Saltstack is stateful and supports features allowing to manage thousands of systems simulataneously

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    • Almost everyone thinks Salt is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Salt is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • Salt is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
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    Chef

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    Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers.

    41 Chef alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Chef Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Chef VS Ansible

     
    Comments about Chef as an Alternative to Ansible
    Guest
    Positive Nov 2, 2018
    0

    Jenkins and the other platforms listed are more build tools rather than a server configuration tool.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Chef is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Chef is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
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    Terraform

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    Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    17 Terraform alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Terraform Features

    1.  Multi-cloud management

    Terraform VS Ansible

     
    Comments about Terraform as an Alternative to Ansible
    Nathaniel Waisbrot
    Positive Apr 1, 2021
    1

    Terraform is primarilly for creating infrastructure and Ansible is primarilly for configuring machines. Both offer tools in the other's domain and both offerings are disappointing there.

    I've been fairly happy using Terraform to create VMs and then trigger Ansible to configure them.

    Guest
    Negative Apr 9, 2020
    -3

    Terraform is for provisioning cloud devices, and Ansible is for bare-metal automation.

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    • Some users think Terraform is a great Ansible alternative, some don't.

    • Terraform is Free and ProprietaryAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
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    Rudder

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    Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
    Dashboard

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Vulnerability management
    4.  Configuration Management
    5.  Patch Management

    Rudder VS Ansible

     

    • Most users think Rudder is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Rudder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Ansible.

    • Rudder is the most popular commercial alternative to Ansible.

    • Rudder is Paid and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • Rudder is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
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    OpenTofu

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    OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    OpenTofu screenshot 1

    OpenTofu Features

    1.  Multi-cloud management

    OpenTofu VS Ansible

     
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    Pulumi

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    Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Pulumi Features

    1.  Kubernetes
    2.  Multi-cloud management
    3.  Serverless
    4. Docker icon  Support for Docker

    Pulumi VS Ansible

     
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    GruCloud

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    GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    GruCloud Features

    1.  Kubernetes
    2.  Google Cloud

    GruCloud VS Ansible

     
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    Yoke

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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows

    Yoke Features

    1.  Multi-cloud management
    2.  Kubernetes

    Yoke VS Ansible

     
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    chezmoi

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    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    8 chezmoi alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Configurable

    Features

    1. Git icon  Git Support
    2.  Incremental Backup
    3. Git icon  Git integration
    4.  Configuration Management
    5.  Custom templates
    6.  Configuration
    7.  Support environment variables

    chezmoi VS Ansible

     
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